1. Key Ideas and Strategies
Unit 1
The following slides include descriptions of each of the strategies and concepts we have studied in Unit 1.

2. Previewing a Text Used to tell what a text is about before reading it.
Used to set a purpose for reading.
Look at the title, the table of contents and other major items such as pictures.

3. Questioning Used to help the reader look more deeply at the text.
Used to try to make confusing ideas in the text more clear.
Used to help the reader focus on the details.
Who, what, when, where, why, how questions.
Require more than a one word answer.
Require more than a “yes” or “no” answer.

4. Connecting
When a text reminds the reader of something he/she has seen, read, or experienced.
Used to help the reader focus on the text and comprehend it.
Allows the reader to apply how they have felt when they experienced something to the text.
Connect text to self, text to world, and text to text.

5. Predicting Used to help the reader focus on the details of the text.
It is always based on the evidence in the text.
The reader predicts, reads, modifies (changes) the prediction when necessary.
Helps the reader stay interested in the text.

6. Visualizing
The reader uses the descriptive words and vivid details to help him/her “see” or form a mental image of the text.
Uses the five senses (hear, taste, smell, touch, see)

7. Theme The lesson learned about life from reading a text.
It is the message the writer wants the reader to learn.

8. Retelling Used to help make sure the reader understands the text.
Used to ensure the reader remembers the key details.